From Drought to Flood

The weather one is probably straight from the climate model. probabilities outside the range 0-1 are usually a sign that something's wrong in the model. But weather modelling's an immensely complex business, so it's sort of understandable.

The weather one is probably straight from the climate model. probabilities outside the range 0-1 are usually a sign that something's wrong in the model. But weather modelling's an immensely complex business, so it's sort of understandable.

Captcha: secundum. Am I second? Well, I'll see when I hit submit.

Are you joking, right? That clearly is an implementation's fault, not a model one.

The weather one is probably straight from the climate model. probabilities outside the range 0-1 are usually a sign that something's wrong in the model. But weather modelling's an immensely complex business, so it's sort of understandable.

Are you joking, right? That clearly is an implementation's fault, not a model one.

Perhaps he meant "model" as in "model/view/controller design". Or the programmer was distracted by a scantily-clad hottie on a runway....

Looks like Collingwood is going to end up in 1-16 with probability of 2702.76%! Does this mean that he will be cloned 26 times (plus a little bit)? How can they fit that much Collingwood into 16 places? It's all too much to bear!

Heh, weathermen are the only people who can be constantly wrong and keep their jobs...

Not true. Doctors get to bury their mistakes.

Not sure I would say they get to bury their "mistakes". Brings to mind malpractice. Especially if they are "constantly" wrong. But of course since medicine continues to contain a bit of art rather than just hard exacting science there is a place for mistakes being ok. Just look at any TV drama. They make it seem like there is no easy routine medicinal procedures (take x for x days, it'll clear up ... tell your wife).

Actually, I was going more for wordplay than stark accuracy. However...

DeLos:

Just look at any TV drama.

I hope to buddha TV dramas aren't an accurate representation of the state of medicine. If so, then our hospitals are filled with uncontrolled pandemonium with patients, their families and friends, and homeless people off the streets wandering in and out of delicate surgical operations at will, and the doctors are constantly having spontaneous sex with each other in every closet and empty room.

Actually, I was going more for wordplay than stark accuracy. However...

DeLos:

Just look at any TV drama.

I hope to buddha TV dramas aren't an accurate representation of the state of medicine. If so, then our hospitals are filled with uncontrolled pandemonium with patients, their families and friends, and homeless people off the streets wandering in and out of delicate surgical operations at will, and the doctors are constantly having spontaneous sex with each other in every closet and empty room.

Yup. That's a typical American hospital!
Sounds like a fun place to work, eh?

Looks like Collingwood is going to end up in 1-16 with probability of 2702.76%! Does this mean that he will be cloned 26 times (plus a little bit)? How can they fit that much Collingwood into 16 places? It's all too much to bear!

Collingwood is a Suburb of Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, Australia. Ergo, The Collingwood Magpies are a team in the AFL, (Australian Football League) and they usually have eighteen unique players on the field at any one time, with the rules specificially stipulating that cloning your best player will be deemed a breach of the salary cap.

Actually, I was going more for wordplay than stark accuracy. However...

DeLos:

Just look at any TV drama.

I hope to buddha TV dramas aren't an accurate representation of the state of medicine. If so, then our hospitals are filled with uncontrolled pandemonium with patients, their families and friends, and homeless people off the streets wandering in and out of delicate surgical operations at will, and the doctors are constantly having spontaneous sex with each other in every closet and empty room.

You WOULD tell me this just a week before I graduated Med School!
(Now what do I do? Become a lawyer?)